A nasty rainstorm caused rivers to swell in Southern Alberta. 20 communites in the city of Calgary as well several towns surrounding the city are under manadatory evucations (Up to 100,000 which is about 10% of the cities population, easily a record.)

Downtown Calgary is CLOSED. (Which NEVER happens, ever.) The Calgary Zoo is closed (also never shuts down due to weather usually either.)

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/06/21...-of-a-lifetime

Here are some photos of the insanity.

There is also still ALOT more rain in the forecast too.

Luckily I don't live near the river, but I have friends who have been evucated.

UPDATE: 2 people were confirmed dead in High River due to the floods.

NEW UPDATE (As of June 25th) Most of Calgary's evacuees have been allowed to return home. Most of the Downtown core has power restored. Transit services has partially been restored to the flood effected areas.

The Town of High River is still closed off to the general public. It is under miltary lockdown as its not safe for anyone to return. The town is being described as a "ghost town / war zone." Virtually the entire town has been destroyed, and could take 10 years to rebuild

The province of Alberta has promised to commit $1 billion to help Albertians with flood recovery.

The flooding in Calgary has shut down Production on season 3 of Hell on Wheels for a few days. Its kinda crazy! They had to stop at episode 306 but they planned on a hiatus in a few days so they may tale it early. Source

The story is even on CNN. They NEVER cover weather stories from Canada.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

The storm originated in Montana, which last I checked was in America. Were sending your sh!t back.

We are getting all this crap weather because of y'all in the US

Almost HALF of Calgary is currently under water right now. Most of transit services are not operating, and over 100,000 people still under evucation order.

Some new photos:

OMG.. these are devistating

The immaturity in here Cities don't GIVE you weather. It flows through the air streams. Y'all need to go back to school.

And wow those pictures look REALLY bad. I hope everyone stays safe

Some of the comments are SO ****ING IGNORANT.. People from the states can be so rude

My sister moved there a few months back and had to move out of where she lives.

This is barely a month after my sisters best friend's brother died falling off a pole after she moved there.

And there's gonna be more rain there too, ****.

Excuse me?

It's awful here!

It's so terrible, my friends told me that its all devastating. I hope they get the help and aid they need.

This is horrible, I hope nobody gets hurt!

I didn't even know Hell on Wheels got renewed!

The news just keeps on getting worse. I take it Stampede could even be cancelled.

Downtown got completely evucated.

And there's still more rain forecast.

It brings tears to my eyes seeing my city like this.

there's a flood watch for Edmonton too...